''Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas'' is a book by computer scientist Seymour Papert, in which he argues for the benefits of teaching computer literacy in

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and

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. It was published by Basic Books in 1980, and republished in a new edition by

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in 1993. The Lego Mindstorms programmable construction set system is named after the book. In 2017, thanks to Papert's family the book was made freely available onlin
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Papert describes the

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as an "object-to-think-with" and discusses many code examples of Turtle Graphics.

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